Private Sector to Fund and Aid in boosting Higher Education in India

Higher Education in India might receive a significant monetary boost as the government is planning to rope in private companies and high-net individuals (HNIs) to finance and promote higher education across the country. The ministry of human resource development has prepared a draft of the plan and will present it before the Union cabinet for consideration.

Roping in HNIs and private companies might lead to improvements in higher education in India, and government officials seemed optimistic. “Bringing in industries or industrialists or high net-worth individuals for HEFA equity will have three benefits. One, structured and clean private funding. Two, outside experience of managing higher education funding. And three, curb chances of manipulation at the institutional level,” a government official told Live Mint. HEFA is financing the needs and promotion of research and innovation beyond budgetary allocations.

In February 2018, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the education sector was a priority for the Indian government.

Why does this matter

In 2014,reports says that a mere 10% of students have access to higher education in the country. The article cited a report by a development economist Abusaleh Shariff, and mentioned that residents of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal have the worst access to higher education.

Report details that lax quality and a lack of accountability and widespread innovation is what ails higher education in India. Indian higher education seems to be suffering from a two-fold problem of quality and quantity. The Indian government seems to think that privatizing education is the only solution. However, along with private investment, the government also should look to invest more in education. India’s spending on education is much lower than that of other countries.

Perhaps some degree of privatization is the only way out for better higher education in India. However, along with adequate funds, the government must ensure the funds are being allocated to improve the quality of teaching offered to Indian students, thereby, improving accountability of the system.

Impressed by SPPU ’s consistent performance and high ranking, Centre grants 100 crore to it

Savitribai Phule Pune University – SPPU, earlier known as university of pune and university of poona . This university was founded in 1949 and spread over 411 acres. It consist of 43 academic departments and has been affiliated with many colleges, departments, and research institutes, which are particularly in Pune only.

University to use funds to expand research programmes, start new projects, says state education minister Vinod Tawde

Through the consistent performance of this university, it has received a whopping of Rs 100- crore grant from the union government under RUSA i.e. Rashtriya Uchchatar Shikshan Abhiyan. Technical Education Minister Vinod Tawde announced that SPPU has the high ranking on the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)

SPPU Using Funds For Expansion

The SPPU will be using these funds to expand its research programmes and start its new projects to improve the quality of education. A draft plan for higher education in the state was ready and it was going to focus on the autonomy of institutes, granting university status to autonomous institutes, research, learning, teaching techniques at the institute level as well as development of latest methods to evaluate performances Tawde said.

RUSA (Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan) is the central government’s contribution to further the promise held by the rich expanse of India’s state universities. Under the system of RUSA, it lays down different slabs for its grants: colleges or universities with a NAAC score of 3.51 will be getting a grant of Rs 5 crore, and those with a score of 2.5 and above will get Rs 2 crore.

In the starting of June month the applications to avail the grant under RUSA will be invited from eligible institutes. Fergusson College also accorded the status of a university under RUSA and will be getting Rs 55 crore to develop its infrastructure, said the minister. “It’s a matter of pride for us that Fergusson College is among the first few autonomous institutes which got the status of a university,” said Tawde.

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Hike by 5% in the Fee of affiliated colleges of Panjab University

All the affiliated schools of Panjab University will likely get a hike of 5 percent in the fees from this new session. The Senate, after deliberating on the difficulty of rationalisation and revision of payment construction, examination payment and all different expenses, resolved to an general payment hike for affiliated schools to the college in Chandigarh and Punjab. Though, there shall be no improve in late charge admission expenses.

The earlier Senate meeting, an general payment hike of 10 per cent was authorised on the college for brand spanking new entrants to conventional and self-financing programs in 2018-19 while it caught to a 5 per cent improve for ongoing college students.

The Syndicate is the governing body of the PU. 188 colleges are affiliated to the PU. The decision to hike the fee will impact close to 2.5 lakh students and this is for both tuition and examination fee.

The Dental Council of India with easy majority vote elected Prof Jagat Bhushanas the director of the Dr H S Decide Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital and Dr Devinder Dhawan has been given the extra extension of one year to the submit of Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Bhai Ghanaiya Ji Institute of Health, punjab University, for a year.

The House uniformly accepted the extension of Prof Emanual Nahar as the Dean of Scholar Welfare (Men) and Prof Neena Caplash as DSW (Ladies) for one year which will impact from June 1, 2018.The meeting of Prof Ranjan Kumar of the division of physics as Affiliate DSW for a period of 1 year with effect from June 1 was also authorised.

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Fergusson College Pune gets University Status

The Centre and the state government are expected to provide a total of Rs 55 crore to the Fergusson College for upgradation of facilities. Officials said the college will convert its 27 departments in Arts and Science streams to eight ‘schools’.

Fergusson college is considered to be the most oldest and iconic institutions. It was established by the stalwarts like Lokmanya Tilak and Gopal Ganesh Agarkar and run by the DES i.e Deccan Education Society. Now the college has received the varsity status,an official of the DES said

“We received a phone call from officials of the University Grants Commission who confirmed that the Fergusson College has received the status of a university. However, we are yet to receive an official letter. On Monday, a meeting was held in Mumbai on the same. We are not yet sure whether it will be a deemed status or a state university status,” said Principal Ravindrasinh Pardeshi during a press conference.

UGC official said that it is one the three colleges across the country to attain a status of varsity. This college will also be receiving grant under the Centre’s Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyaan (RUSA).Since 2016Fergusson College has been an autonomous institute. The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) had asked all the autonomous colleges, who wished to upgrade their status to that of a university, to send in their proposals by April 19. On Friday, a meeting took place in New Delhi between officials of the RUSA and the UGC where names of three colleges, including Fergusson, were finalised.

The Centre and the state government are expected to provide a total of Rs 55 crore to the college for upgradation of facilities. Officials said the college will convert its 27 departments in Arts and Science streams to eight ‘schools’. Like the school of bio-sciences, school of liberal arts and humanities, school of social sciences, and so on, which will be headed by directors or deans. There will also be separate centres dedicated skill and personality development, and health and wellness. The college will also focus on improving the physical infrastructure of the campus.